Wolters Kluwer, a global provider of information and point of care solutions for the healthcare industry, has announced that POC Advisor™, its real-time clinical surveillance and analytics platform, will be deployed by Rush University Medical Center (RUMC) as part of the hospital's ongoing effort to improve sepsis outcomes. POC Advisor aggregates, normalises and analyses patient data from disparate clinical systems to deliver timely and highly accurate sepsis alerts and patient-specific advice to clinicians at the point of care.
Ranked by U.S. News & World Report as one of the nation's top academic medical centers, RUMC will deploy POC Advisor to reduce sepsis rates by enabling diagnosis at the earliest, most treatable stages. Sepsis, the body's overwhelming response to infection, is often fatal to patients if clinicians don't begin treatment in a timely manner.
POC Advisor uses real-time clinical surveillance and analytics to deliver timely and accurate sepsis alerts and advice. Hundreds of rules built into the platform account for possible comorbidities and medication abnormalities, and trigger alerts that have demonstrated unprecedented levels of sensitivity (95%) and specificity (82%) as published in a peer-reviewed study in the Journal of American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA). That study also found that POC Advisor reduced sepsis mortality and sepsis-related 30-day readmissions by 53% and 30%, respectively.
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